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Young Athlete Center Bridge Program

This is a workout class designed to target muscle groups commonly associated with injury and train neuromuscular responses to coordinate movement and strengthen in proper alignment. This class is led by expert physical therapists and athletic trainers from the Young Athlete Center.

 

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Patient and Visitor Information

Being with your loved ones while they are in the hospital is important to their healing and overall wellbeing, and we are happy to welcome you to Missouri Baptist Medical Center.

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Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery Helps Tom Return to the Basketball Court

Tom Caspari thought he was too healthy to have a heart attack.

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Dr. Stewart Gets a “Second Chance at Life” After Heart Attack

Todd Stewart, MD, is no stranger to critically ill patients and life-saving procedures. As a spinal neurosurgeon and chief of neurosurgery at Missouri Baptist Medical Center, it’s all in a day’s work. But it came as a shock when he suffered a life-threatening heart attack last year.

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Sarah & Andrew Navigate the NICU After Birth of Twin Boys

Sarah and Andrew Sapperstein were looking forward to being parents and were overjoyed and shocked to discover that they were having twins. As the months passed, Sarah's pregnancy was going smoothly, and they planned to welcome their babies by cesarean section (C-section) at 38 weeks.

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Professional Practice Model

Nursing at MoBap

The Missouri Baptist Medical Center Nursing Professional Practice Model is a framework for all professional registered nurses (RNs) employed at Missouri Baptist. This professional model will serve to facilitate excellence in outcomes by providing essential elements that guide decisions and ensure consistency in nursing practice throughout all settings. 

The model outlines a central focus of patient and family-centered care as an approach to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of nursing care that is grounded in mutually beneficial partnerships among health care providers, patients and families.

Outer Green Circle: Professional nursing practice and care of the patient and family optimally occurs in an environment of trust, collaboration, shared leadership and professional development. 

Inner Green Circle: Nursing practice at Missouri Baptist is based on science, including evidence-based practice, research, process improvement and innovation. 

Inner Blue Circle: Our practice is artfully executed through a caring, holistic approach to care, clinical expertise and patient/family advocacy. By doing so, nurses at Missouri Baptist facilitate an extraordinary patient experience resulting in optimal patient outcomes.

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